Luis Altamirano

Luis Altamirano Talavera (5 July 1867-25 July 1938) was President of Chile from 11 September 1924 to 23 January 1925, succeeding Arturo Alessandri and preceding Pedro Dartnell.

Biography
Luis Altamirano Talavera was born in Concepcion, Chile on 5 July 1867, and he served in the congressional army during the Chilean Civil War of 1891 and became a colonel in 1908 and a divisional general in 1919. In 1924, President Arturo Alessandri appointed Altamirano to head a new cabinet after military officers Carlos Ibanez del Campo and Marmaduque Grove demanded a cabinet shake-up, and Alessandri eventually resigned rather than become a pawn of the military. Altamirano headed a military junta until January 1925, when he was deposed in another military coup. He died in 1938.